Airline pilots blame faulty rules for gun's firing

Inadequate handgun rules designed by Department of Homeland Security officials are to blame for last weekend's accidental discharge of a pistol by a commercial pilot during landing preparations, a pilots association said yesterday.

Did anybody bother to read the article? It said the pilot was following the rules to secure his handgun before he left the cockpit. This consisted of trying to insert a padlock through a hole in the holster to secure it through the triggerguard, one assumes behind the trigger. However, while juggling a handgun, holster, and padlock on his lap while simultaneously flying a huge jet he got the padlock in front of the trigger and it went boom. Assuming he is telling the truth, the TSA rules would seem unsafe at best.